US43865A - Improved washing-machine - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE PRINDLE, OF SPAFFORD, NEW YORK.

I MPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,865, dated August 16, 1864.'

T0 aZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE PRINDLE, of the town of Spadoni, in the count-y of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement on Washing- Machines; and Ido hereby declare th at the following-is a iull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the sam'e, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 'l is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a sectional view.

My aim is to furnish a 'Washing machine which shall be simplein its construction, easily worked, not liable to get out of repair, and which can be furnished at a small expense.

To enable others to make and use my in vention, I will proceed tol describe its construction aud operation.

My washingbox A may be made of any convenient size, and placed upon suitable legs, (represented in Fig. 1 by the letters a a.)

The slanting end of my box 13,1 make with corrugations b b, which can be used as a washboard. A 1

In the lower portion of my washing-boxI place the rollers c c, which have spindles or bearings, which spindles revolve in proper holes in said box and constitute a semlclrcle.

The rubber D, I make of semicircular form, corrugated upon its convex side, which corrugations come in contact with the rollers during the operating ofthe machine. The rubber is provided with handles H H, and two stand ards, R R, fastened to the center of the rubber, which pass through a roller E at the top of the washing box and revolve with the rubber. The standards R R, passing through slots in the roller E, readily adjust the rubber D in its upward and downward movements without that resistance which would obtain were the roller E placed in guides or grooves. The resistance to the rubber in its action upon the clothes to be washed is, by reason ofthe revolving roller E and standards R R, always in a perpendicular position to the slots in the roller.

What I claim as my invention is- The construction of a washing-machine provided with the adjustable rubber D, when combined with the standards R R, roller E, provided with slots to receive said standards, and the corrugated end B, in the manner and for the purpose herein specified.

l HORACE PRINDLE.

Witnesses:

R. H. DUELL, D. N. BURR.

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